data.gov.uk launches in public beta
January 21st, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Handy tools and technology, Online Journalism
As widely reported elsewhere, data.gov.uk is now available in public beta:
Data.gov.uk acts as an online point of access for government-held non-personal data. This is to enable people like you to take it, re-use it and make interesting things with.
Full introductory post at this link…
“It’s [government data] such an untapped resource,” Sir Tim Berners Lee told BBC News.
“Government data is something we have already spent the money on… and when it is sitting there on a disk in somebody’s office it is wasted.”
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